Reinhard Folk
			email: firstname.lastname@jku.at

Statement of the MECO Advisory Board of 25 February 2022

The advisory board of MECO is shocked by the actions of the leadership of Russia against Ukraine – a MECO member. This act of violence goes against the values and aspirations of Europe’s scientists who, with the creation of MECO in 1974, sought to overcome the iron curtain that divided Eastern and Western countries.
The invasion of a free country is a brutal attack on the freedom of all nations, communities, and individuals. MECO’s aim is to enable scientific freedom for the academic community as an essential part of peaceful cooperation between countries. Academic freedom is only possible by respecting national freedom. The advisory board therefore calls on the academic community worldwide to maintain and support these values by condemning the actions of Russia’s leadership and calling for withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine with immediate effect.

Scientific Curriculum vitae

• 1973 Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna entitled "Hydrodynamic Equations of Dielectric Crystals"
  
• 1973 Assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1982 Walter Schottky Award of the German Physical Society together with Dr.V.Dohm for the work on the critical dynamics in He4
  
• 1982 Habilitation
  
• 1983 permanent position as Senior Assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1984 Director of the group "Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1993 permanent position as Senior Associate Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1. December 2009 retired
  
• 3. December 2009 Degree 'Doctor honoris causa' awarded by the decision of the ICMP (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) Scientific Council of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv
  
• 2021 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  
• 2023 March "Goldenes Doktordiplom der Universität Wien" Kommentierte Dankesrede

Positions abroad

• 1979-1980 Scientific visitor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, KFA Jülich, Germany
  
• 1982-1983 Assistant at the Physics Department of the Technical University München, Germany
  
• 1986-1987 Visiting Associate Professor (Chair of Prof. Wölfle) at the Physics Department of the Technical University München, Germany
  

Administrative Acitivities

• Organisation of the meeting MECO33 14.04.-16.04.2008 in Puchberg/Wels
  
• Organisation of the Symposium "Renormalization and Scaling" at the 69. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) 4.-9. March 2005 in Berlin
  
• 2002-2007 Austrian Delegate in the Steering Committee of the program Phase Transitions and Fluctuation Phenomena for Random Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems (RDSES) of ESF
  
• 2006-2009 Austrian Delegate in the Experts Committee of the Domain MPNS - Materials, Physical and Nanosciences of COST
  
• 1998-2006 Austrian Delegate in the Technical Committee on Physics of COST
  
• Member of the faculty over several years, member of various comissions
  
• 1993-2003 Member of the "Bundeskonferenz des wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Personals der österreichischen Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen" (BUKO)
  
• 1997-1999 Member of the presidency of the BUKO
  
• 1999-2001 (first period) Chairman of the presidency of the BUKO
  
• 2001-2003 (second and last period) Chairman of the presidency of the BUKO closed by UG2002 on 31.12.03
  see the publications of the BUKO (in german) BUKO-Info
  
• Organisation of the meeting MECO20 21.3.-23.3.1995 in Puchberg/Wels
  
• 1995-2013 Member of the Advisor Commitee of the Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Ukrainian journal "Condensed Matter Physics" (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
  Member of the Austrian Physical Society, Referee for international scientific journals
  

Grants

• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No.5901 and 6759 (1985-1990) "Quantitative Theory of Phase Transitions"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No.9379-PHY (1993-1996) "Recognition of patterns in networks with multi state neurons"
  
• Ministry of Science, Research and Art: Grant "Microscopic theory of dynamic properties of magnetic liquids" (1994-1996)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Lise Meitner Scholarschip with the topic "Neural networks for the invariant recognition of visual patterns" for Dr.A.Kartashov (Moscow, Academy of Sciences)(1993/94)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 12422-PHY (1997-2000) "Critical Dynamics of Fluids" and COST P1
  
• Österreichische Nationalbank Jubiläumsfonds: Grant No.7694 (1999-2003)"Kritische Phänomene"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 15247-PHY (2001-2004) "Dynamics of Complex Fluids"
  
• Austrian Exchange Service: Action Austria-Slovakia "Magnetic Fluids and Mixtures with Liquid Crystals" (2002-2003)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 16574-PHY (2003-2007) "Critical Phenomena in disordered systems"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 18592-PHY (2006-2008) "Phase transitions and correlations in complex fluids"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 19583-PHY (2007-2011) "Critical phenomena in pure and disordered Systems"
  
• Project OIAD No. UA 09/2020 (2021 - 2022): Statistical physics and beyond: from the origins to european and global cooperation -from critical phenomena to complex systems
  

Publications

Book

Contibutions in books

Selected Posters, talks and papers

Links

Last modified: 09/2025 by: Folk